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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 209

SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by Elizabeth the Queen Mother SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Gilt crown to cover. With printed greetings ""With Best Wishes For Christmas And The New Year 1965"" and the Queen Mother`s signature ""Elizabeth R"" in black fountain pen ink. Opposite the signed page is a mounted colour three quarter length photograph of the Queen Mother. Overall size 25.2 x 40.3cm when opened. Glue residue to cover and few stains to signed page. Light wear to margins and fold, but otherwise in good condition.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 210

SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by Elizabeth the Queen Mother [1967?] SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by Elizabeth the Queen Mother [1967?]. Gilt crown to cover. With printed greetings ""With Best Wishes For Christmas And The New Year"" and the Queen Mother`s signature ""Elizabeth R"" in blue pen ink. Opposite the signed page is a mounted colour half length photograph of the Queen Mother off the coast of Newfoundland in 1967. Overall size 23.5 x 39.2cm when opened. Light foxing as well as light wear to margins and fold, but otherwise in good condition.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 211

SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by Elizabeth the Queen Mother SP A Royal Christmas Card signed by Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Gilt crown to cover. With printed greetings ""With Best Wishes For Christmas And The New Year 1976"" and the Queen Mother`s signature ""Elizabeth R"" in black pen ink. Opposite the signed page is a mounted black and white landscape photograph of the Queen Mother with Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and the two children of Princess Margaret. Overall size19.7 x 46.7cm when opened. Light wear to margins, but otherwise in very good condition.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 212

SP A vintage mounted, black and white, full length photograph of Princess... SP A vintage mounted, black and white, full length photograph of Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in her wedding dress (overall size 29.2 x 20.7cm) Signed and dated on upper left corner ""Beatrice, 1907"". Mount margins trimmed in a slightly irregular way. A very nice image; a mounted sepia, gelatine silver print photograph of Queen Marie of Romania with Romanian national costume in a landwood with Castle Bran in the background (overall size 30.6 x 24.1cm). Inscribed in ink to mount upper margin ""A Happy Xmas to [aunt?] Molly, in remembrance of our time together"" and signed on lower margin ""Marie, 1926"". Light age toning and some silvering, but nonetheless a charming picture; a mounted black and white, head and shoulders photo of Leopold of Battenberg, approximately size 19.7 x 14.6cm. Signed and dated in ink ""Leopold of Battenberg, 1909"". Ink slightly faded, but signature remains legible. A few pen and pencil annotations to rear. Fascinating pictures of three of Queen Victoria`s grandchildren.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 219

DS A mounted 31 x 23cm one page French royal document on paper DS A mounted 31 x 23cm one page French royal document on paper, dated January 1792 and clearl y signed in ink ""Louis"". The document is an authorization for a payment to a government official. Accompanied by a 17.5 x 12.5cm engraving of the portrait of Louis XVI. A horizontal main fold along with some other vertical folds. Tiny edge tears. Some age toning, as well as light browning along the folds. A few small adhesive remnants to blank portions. Framed and glazed. Overall size 45 x 52cm. The document was signed by the King of France when he was under arrest at the Tuileries, after the failure of his flight from Paris in June 1791. In August 1792 he was officially imprisoned and sent to the Temple. He was executed on the 21st of January 1793.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 220

COL A fascinating collection of royal photographs and ephemera COL A fascinating collection of royal photographs and ephemera. Highlights include: a mounted (36.1 x 29cm) black and white photograph by Cecil Beaton of Princess Margaret in her wedding dress, signed and dated by the Princess in ink below the picture ""Margaret 1960"". Some edge wear and chipping to margins, but the signature remains unaffected. A mounted 26.6 x 20.2cm black and white half length photograph by Dorothy Wilding of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, signed and dated in ink below the picture ""Marina 1953"". Light wear to corners. Lot also includes a printed copy of the wedding service for 1960 marriage of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey; a black and white half length photograph of Princess Marina, signed and dated in blue ink ""Marina 1966"" and housed in an original tooled blue leather and gilt frame by Jarrolds of Knightsbridge; a Royal Christmas Card for 1966 featuring a mounted black and white photograph of the Queen Mother stepping off a plane on her 1966 visit to Australia; unsigned pictures of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on the coronation day and other formal occasions; three unused sheets of headed ""Norman Hartnell Limited"" letter paper featuring embossed royal coats of arms, other royal pictures and cards sent to Madame Isabelle Fowler and three black and white photographs of models wearing Norman Hartnell creations plausibly made by Madame Isabelle Fowler. A good value lot, viewing recommended.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 222

SP A Royal Christmas Card signed and inscribed on the first page by King... SP A Royal Christmas Card signed and inscribed on the first page by King Olav V of Norway ""For dear Xenia, with warm and sincere Christmas greetings and all good wishes for the New Year and lots of love from us all, Olav"", 1958. On the third page is a mounted black and white photograph of the King kneeling at the altar in Nidaros cathedral on his coronation day. Overall size 12 x 33.8cm when opened. Light yellowing to paper, but nonetheless in fine condition. The card is addressed to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, sister of the last tzar Nicholas II. After the Revolution she fled Russia and settled in the United Kingdom. She was also first cousin to the English King George V and Olav V`s mother.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 226

MEM A rare copy of ESPN Millennium Issue, overall size 30.3 x 25.3cm MEM A rare copy of ESPN Millennium Issue (January 2000), overall size 30.3 x 25.3cm. Boldly signed in black marker at top of front cover by Muhammad Ali and in silver ink at bottom by Neal Adams, designer of the two sided colour cover featuring Muhammad Ali boxing Michael Jordan surrounded by the 100 top sport stars of the millennium. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity from the famous collector of Ali- related memorabilia Peter Morkovin. Light wear to corners and edges, but otherwise in very good condition. A really fascinating item.

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Lot 230

SP A vintage 13.5 x 8.7cm black and white SP A vintage 13.5 x 8.7cm black and white, full length postcard of the English cricketer Jack Hobbs. Signed in black ink across the white pads ""J. B. Hobbs"". Light wear to corners, some spotting to rear. A nice item of memorabilia of the legendary batsman.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 27

COL Autograph album, some pages featuring multiple signatures COL Autograph album, some pages featuring multiple signatures, including the signatures of Winston Churchill, Randolph Churchill and Sarah Churchill (on the same page), many of the racing drivers who took part in the 1948 Grand Prix de Monaco, Edward G. Robinson, Lena Horne, Orson Welles. Tear to lower part of spine, but otherwise in good condition. Light brown leather cover, late 1940s-early 1950s.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 30

COL A mixed group of cards, books and memorabilia signed by movie celebrities COL A mixed group of cards, books and memorabilia signed by movie celebrities, authors and entertainers. Highlights include a note on paper signed and inscribed by Elizabeth Taylor (""To Louisa. Best Wishes""), mailing folds, torn lower left corner; a postcard with a view of Piccadilly and the Park Lane Hotel signed by Josephine Baker (""Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year, Josephine Baker, 1963""); a 59.5 x 42cm black and white, backed print of Rudolph Nurejev, signed by the dancer in ink; a card headed ""Hotel Du Palais D`Orsay"" signed by Marlon Brando in blue ink; two cards headed ""The Dorchester, Park Lane, London W1A 2HJ"", signed by Marlon Brando and Ringo Starr, the latter with light scratching and spotting; a typed page from the screenplay of an episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, signed by Gordon Jackson (""Best Wishes Stefano, Gordon Jackson (Hudson!)"", some folds with minor browning and splitting, punch hole to upper right corner. Viewing recommended.

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Lot 35

COL An interesting group of signed letters COL An interesting group of signed letters, clipped signatures and other memorabilia of prominent authors, scientists and musicians from the early twentieth century. Highlights include a 27 x 21cm typed letter on light blue paper, signed ""P.G. Wodehouse"" at foot in ink. In the letter, dated March 17, 1936 Wodehouse writes: ""I`m not quite sure which of the Jeeves stories I like best, but I much prefer the third series, ""Very Good Jeeves"" to the other two. I think, though, that, if you want me to choose one, I will choose ""The Great Sermon Handicap"", with ""The Song of Songs"" as runner-up"". Mailing folds and light creasing to corners. Also included in the lot is a clipped signature of Ernest Rutherford, signed letters from Vita Sackville- West, Ivor Brown, the musicologist Susi Jeans, the mathematician Alfred N. Whitehead, the archaeologist Aurel Stein and others, along with a rare ""Wonderland"" Postage-Stamp Case, decorated with illustrations from Lewis Carroll`s ""Alice in Wonderland"". An interesting and mixed collection. Viewing recommended.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 45

SP A vintage 13.8 x 8.7cm, head and shoulders postcard photo by Albert... SP A vintage 13.8 x 8.7cm, head and shoulders postcard photo by Albert Witzel of a young Charlie Chaplin, signed in black ink across the printed signature ""Charlie Chaplin"". Light wear to corners. Accompanied by a letter written on headed ""Charles Chaplin, Los Angeles California"" paper, signed at foot ""Chas. Chaplin"". Letter reads: ""Sept. 17/15, Dear Mr Whitehead, I am as much alive as ever. I am enclosing a photo"". Sold with the original envelope postmarked ""Los Angeles, September 17, 6 pm, 1915"". Mr Whitehaed read that Chaplin had been involved in a car accident and wrote to him to know about his health condition. The letter is Chaplin`s reply. Lot also includes a 22.3 x 17.5cm sepia, head and shoulders photo of Mary Pickford by Fred Hartsook, signed in blue ink to lower left corner ""Sincerely Mary Pickford"". Mounted on cardboard of same size and trimmed in a slightly irregular way. Ink slightly faded, but Pickford signature remains clear and crisp. A pair of nice photographs of two leading actors in early Hollywood and founding members of United Artists motion picture studio.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 46

COL A unique autograph album including signatures in various inks of... COL A unique autograph album (approx 20 x 25cm) including signatures in various inks of celebrities who took part in the nationally broadcast 1987 BBC Children In Need telethon. Black leather cloth, with gilt borders and page edges. Highlights include: Paul and Linda McCartney, Charlton Heston, Boy George, James Ivory, Vanessa Redgrave, Barry White, Shirley Maclaine, Sheila Hancock, Emma Thompson, Bette Davis, Peter Ustinov, Johnny Cash, Spike Milligan, Shirley Bassey and many, many more (multiple signatures per page). The album also comprises the signature of the long-standing host of the programme Sir Terry Wogan (""Best Wishes and Thank You, Terry Wogan""). Very light wear to corners. Free endpapers are partially unglued from the first and last page. A 13cm tear across the inner hinge, but otherwise in very good condition. A unique grouping of theatre, film and television celebrities, which was actually auctioned as part of that year`s live television broadcast.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 47

SP A vintage 13.5 x 9cm black and white, head and shoulders photograph of... SP A vintage 13.5 x 9cm black and white, head and shoulders photograph of Noel Coward by the French photographic studio Carlet Aine, signed ""Noel Coward"" in ink on upper margin. Mounted, overall size 24 x 19.5cm. Ink slightly discoloured, but the signature remains clear and crisp. Light wear to mount margins.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 5

MEM Five plates with black-bordered drawings of mandalas and surrealistic... MEM Five plates with black-bordered drawings of mandalas and surrealistic shapes, uncoloured, printed on thick white paper, folio, 46 x 30.5cm. Original light burgundy wrappers, with upper portion lettered and decorated in green and reading ""The Psychedelic Poster Coloring Book Vol. 1. For felt tip pens. Colored Pencils. Crayons. Watercolours. Colored Ink. Tempera. Chalk"". San Francisco, Guild Artists, c. 1967. Mottled upper wrapper, lower portion detached.

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Lot 63

COL A unique grouping of items related to Sharon Tate COL A unique grouping of items related to Sharon Tate, collected by the vendor on the set of the 1966 British horror movie ""Eye of the Devil"". A 12 x 8.5cm spiral bound notebook, inscribed and signed on one page ""Lionel, Good Luck in your future. Sharon Tate"". Notebook also including signatures of Kim Novak ""Worderful knowing you, good luck, Kim Novak"", Donald Pleasence ""Godd Wishes, Donald Pleasence, Brive feb. 1965"", Robert Duncan ""To Lionel with love, Robert Duncan"", Donald Bisset and David Niven ""To young Bean with love. David Niven"". Light yellowing to paper, but otherwise in good condition. Three snapshots of cast members taken at Chateau de Hautefort, where the movie was shot, are also included, two of them featuring Sharon Tate. Tape residues to corners.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 72

NS A note from Charles Dickens on 18 x 11 NS A note from Charles Dickens on 18 x 11.5cm light blue paper, reading ""Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens, 1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate Regent`s Park, Fourteenth April 1846"". Four pages, three horizontal mailing folds with minor splitting. Some browning to edges and along folds. Browning to paper of last page. Dickens lived in Devonshire Terrace from 1839 to 1851.

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Fraser's Autographs
Lot 78

ANS An autograph poem entitled ""Jealousy"" ANS An autograph poem entitled ""Jealousy"", written and signed in blue ink by Robert Graves on white paper, approximately 44 x 28.5cm and dated May 4th 1970. It reads ""I`d die for you and you for me / So furious is our jealousy / And if you doubt this to be true / Kill me at once lest I kill you"". Beneath the poem is a drawing in black ink of a weeping eagle with a butterfly net and a fly, with the Latin statement in capital letters ""Aquila non captat muscas"". The drawing is by Graves`s daughter Catherine Dalton and is dated May 9th 1970. Light yellowing to paper and minor browning to edges. Some smudges to poem`s title.

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Lot 80

TLS A 20.3 x 12.7cm one page, typed letter on headed ""Bateman`s Burwash, Sussex TLS A 20.3 x 12.7cm one page, typed letter on headed ""Bateman`s Burwash, Sussex"" paper, signed ""Rudyard Kipling"" at foot in ink and dated May 26, 1895. Kipling writes to William Dunlop in reply to his letter of the 25th of May, saying that ""the date on the bookplate merely gives the year when it was designed and has no reference to the volume itself. Nor does it, evidently, belong to any one that I know"". Mailing folds, ""Private"" stamped across the upper margin of the letter. Paperclip rust stain to upper left corner. A few pencil annotations to upper margin. Together with a 18 x 11cm holograph copy of the letter written to Rudyard Kipling from Dunlop, dated ""54 Cromwell Road, Redhill, Surrey, 25th May 1935"", blue-lined white paper. Dunlop enquiries about an edition of ""The Voyage to the Polo Way"" by William Carlton Dawe, containing a bookplate dated 1894 which might be Kipling`s. He adds that the bookplate bears an inscription which might be by Kipling`s late son. Glue residue across upper section of fold, paperclip rust stain to upper left corner. Lot also includes a four page, 18 x 11.5cm letter on light blue paper, dated ""The Glables, Tisbury, 27 October 1905"" and signed ""J.L. Kipling"" at foot. Written on the first page, blank integral leaf. Kipling writes ""Dear Sir, I have a rooted dislike of publicity of any kind and should much prefer not to appear in any way in your book, especially as I have no sort of connection with the county. I have however put down on your slip all that can be necessary to say"". Minor browning to edges and fold, pencil annotations by an unknown hand to the first and third page, explaining that the letter was addressed to H.A. Bench of Brighton and the mentioned book is a ""County Family"" work. John Lockwood Kipling was an art teacher and museum curator and father to the author Rudyard Kipling, for whose works he provided many illustrations.

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Lot 87

SP A 14 x 9.7cm cabinet card, half length portrait photograph of Leo Tolstoy... SP A 14 x 9.7cm cabinet card, half length portrait photograph of Leo Tolstoy facing right, clearly dated and signed in Russian below the picture ""December 2, 1892, Leo Tolstoy"". Original mount of the photographer Scherer and Nabholz in Moscow. Overall size 6.3 x 10.6cm. Minor chipping at mount corners as well as light browning to edges. Light spotting to lower mount margin. An excellent signed portrait of Russia`s most famous novelist.

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Lot 91

ALS A four page, 17.7 x 11cm letter on cream white paper, with embossed head ALS A four page, 17.7 x 11cm letter on cream white paper, with embossed head ""Spade House, Sandgate"", dated ""June.22.06"" and signed ""H.G. Wells"" in ink at foot. Written on the first page only. Mid-horizontal mailing fold, light browning to edges. Slight water smudge to date, but nonetheless in very good condition. Wells writes ""Dear Dunn, God bless you! I am worked to death or I`d write you a long letter. Fly! I`ve made a tennis lawn now to give you a comfortable landing"". A nice item from one of the most famous English science-fiction authors. When Wells wrote the letter in 1906 he could have been working either on the novel ""In the Days of the Comet"" or on some ideas for the 1907 novel ""The War of the Air"".

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Lot 94

MEM An 43 x 62cm original poster from the famous Amsterdam rock venue and... MEM An 43 x 62cm original poster from the famous Amsterdam rock venue and countercultural hub ""Paradiso"", advertising performances of post punk / Industrial legends Cabaret Voltaire, Metabolist and Eric Random on the 24th of September. Silkscreened in red and black on thin white stock, Amsterdam, n.p. [Paradiso?], 1980. Two closed tears to left margin, light spottting, but otherwise a crisp copy promoting a stellar line up including lost Manchester legend Random and Metabolist, the closest an English band ever got to the krautrock ecstasy of Can .

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Piano Auctions Ltd.
Lot 3

Steinway (c1962) A Model Z upright piano in a light walnut case.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 166

Letter signed ""W Erfrinsto van Orange"" to Etienne de Damas ( King of the Netherlands, as Prince of Orange, 1772-1843) Letter signed ""W Erfrinsto van Orange"" to Etienne de Damas, Colonel of Light Infantry in the service Louis XVIII, 1p. with conjugate blank, in French, folio, The Hague, 25th September 1794, relating to Major van Baruld, folds.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 194

Culverwell (Nathaniel) - An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature, separate title to Spiritual Opticks , some neat contemporary translations of the Greek in margins, title a little dust-soiled and creased with shelf-numbers, fore-edge nearly reinforced, library level on reverse, modern full calf, gilt, [Wing C7569], 1652. Rare. Culverwell, one of the principal scholars of the seventeenth century, delivered this important series of sermons in the chapel of Emmanuel College Cambrdge in 1645-46. In them he examines the relationship between reason and faith, and forms one of the first attempts in English Protestantism to stress the role of reason in ethics and to develop a doctrine of natural law .

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 199

[Allestree (R.)] - The Gentleman`s Calling, 2 engraved plates, later calf, [Wing, A 1119], by R. Norton for T. Garthwait, 1667 § Paterculus (M. Velleius) [Historian Romana;] cum notis Gerardi Vossii, engraved title, water-staining throughout, contemporary vellum with yapp edges, soiled, 1654 § Wells (Edward) A Treatise of Antient and Present Geography, second edition, engraved frontispiece, ink ownership inscription of Edward Derby 1717 to front free endpaper, contemporary pannelled calf, a little worn, for A and J. Churchill , 1706, some spotting and light browning ; and 5 others, Dickens, v.s. (8)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 225

Pope (Alexander).- Homer. - The Iliad, 6 vol., all but vol.1 & 4 first editions, W.Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott [in later vol. Lintot], 1738-1716-1717-1720; The Odyssey, 4 vol. only (of 5, lacking vol.2), first editions, engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved vignette title, for Bernard Lintott, 1725-1726, titles in red and black, numerous engraved head- and -tail pieces, lacking plates and half titles, a couple of short closed tears, some spotting and light browning, ink ownership inscription to front free endpapers, bookplate to front pastedowns, uniformly bound in contemporary calf, gilt, spines in in compartments, worn with some loss to spines and extremities, [Rothschild 1573 & 1590] folio (10) ; sold not subject to return.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 231

[Wallace (Robert)] - Characteristics of the Present Political State of Great Britain, second edition, lacking half-title, A.Millar, 1758 § Beaumont (F.) Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, engraved frontispeice, title in red and black, a couple of short closed tears, several leaves a little trimmed, ink annotations to endpapers, contemporary half calf, marbled paper on upper cover loose, worn, J & R. Tonson, 1763 § [Dragonetti (Jacinto)] A Treatise on Virtues and Rewards, text in Italian and English , several engraved vignettes, some light browning, 1769 § Milton (John) The Poetical Works of John Milton by Joseph Addison, 2 vol., engraved portraits and plates, ink inscription to front free endpapers, bookplate to front pastedowns, 1794 § Cowper (William) Poems, 2 vol., sixth edition, ink inscriptions to front free endpapers, 1794, all but second contemporary calf, joints a little cracked, rubbed ; and c.55 others, mostly 18th & 19th English and Continental Literature, including a copy of Fisher`s Drawing Room Scrap-book and a twelfth thousand edition Carroll`s Through the Looking Glass, v.s. (c.60)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 232

Baskerville (John).- Addison (Joseph) - The Works, 4 vol., engraved portrait and 3 plates, 7 woodcut numismatic plates and illustrations, without Direction to the Binder leaf in vol.1 as often, light foxing, contemporary diced russia, spines gilt, rubbed, corners and spine ends a little worn, [Gaskell 17], large 4to, Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1761.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 235

The Present State of All Nations. Containing a geographical, natural The Present State of All Nations. Containing a geographical, natural, commercial, and political history of all the countries in the known world, 8 vol., second edition, engraved plates and maps, some light spotting and toning throughout, contemporary calf, rubbed, 8vo, for R. Baldwin and others, 1768.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 250

Worshipful Company of Fishmongers (The) - The last incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers of London, to which is annexed several of the most particular bye-laws of the said company, and also a summary of their meetings: gifts, appointments, ., 2 parts in 1 vol., light occaisonal spotting, contemporary tree calf, gilt, with a red morroco label to upper cover, joints cracked, some loss to spine, worn, 1790; and another copy, 1862, 4to (2) The first [-second] Report of the Committee of the Fish Association for the Benefit of the Community, respecting the measures to be adopted for the supply of the Metropolis and its Neighbourhood.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 255

Nares (George S.) - The Naval Cadet`s Guide, or, seaman s companion, first edition , advertisement, engraved frontispiece, 138 numbered illustrations on 28 lithographed plates (several folding, 2 partly coloured) and 2 extending plates of rigging, presentation copy , inscribed on the flyleaf Cmd.S.Henderson, R.N., from the author , scattered light foxing, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, Portsea , 1860.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 27

Pugin (Augustus Charles) - Gothic Furniture, additional pictorial aquatint title and 27 plates, most aquatint, all hand-coloured, tissue guards, light marginal spotting and soiling, original red cloth, gilt, bookseller`s ticket of Simms & Dinham of Manchester, a little rubbed and mottled, skilfully rebacked, [Abbey, Life 51, uncoloured apart from title), 4to, M.A.Nattali, [?c.1828]. Pugin`s first book, the plates originally appeared in Ackermann`s Repository of Arts from 1825 to 1827. Copies are generally uncoloured, including the Abbey copy, and have Ackermann as the publisher. The plates include Gothic beds, tables & chairs, sofas, bookcases and even ""an horizontal grand piano forte"".

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 311

Thomson (James) - The Seasons, with `Britannia` bound at end, title in red and black with engraved vignette, list of subscribers including Pope and Horace Walpole, 5 engraved plates after William Kent, some light spotting or soiling, Roger Senhouse`s copy with his book-label, contemporary calf, spine gilt, some scratches, 1730 § Churchill (Charles) Poems, 2 vol. in 1, first collected edition , half-title to vol.2, contemporary calf, spine gilt, joints split, head of spine worn, for the Author by Dryden Leach, 1763-65 § [Macpherson (James)] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem by Ossian, first edition , title in red and black with engraved vignette, advertisement leaf at end, lightly browned and spotted, later calf-backed marbled boards, for T.Becket & P.A. De Hondt, 1762, 4to (3)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 321

with 2 half-titles, light staining to fore-edge of title and subsequent few... with 2 half-titles, light staining to fore-edge of title and subsequent few leaves, contemporary sheep, upper joint split, spine ends worn, for W.Osborne & T.Griffin, , 1785 § Parnell ( Dr. Thomas) Poems on Several Occasions, edited by Alexander Pope, title in red and black, contemporary calf, rebacked, B.Lintot, 1722 § Dyer (John) Poems, 3 engraved plates, modern morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, R. & J.Dodsley, 1761 § Fawkes (Francis) Original Poems and Translations, engraved title-vignette, 20pp. list of subscribers, Contents leaf torn and repaired, modern calf-backed boards, for the Author, 1761 § Somervile (William) The Chace. A Poem, second edition, A2 defective at lower outer corner with loss of one letter of catchword, old ink inscription on front free endpaper, old library stamp on pastedown, original boards, uncut, spine worn and defective, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, for G.Hawkins & T.Cooper, 1735, all but the first and last first editions , some spotting and browning, some rubbed ; and 7 others, mostly 18th century poetry, 8vo (12)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 328

Shelley (Percy Bysshe) - The Masque of Anarchy, With a Preface by Leigh Hunt, first edition , half-title, advertisement leaf at end, some light spotting and soiling, a few pencil markings, original boards, uncut, rubbed and soiled, spine worn and lacking most of backstrip, preserved in later green straight-grain morocco slip-case with pull-off top (spine faded), 8vo, Edward Moxon, 1832. Written following the notorious Peterloo massacre in 1819 for publication in The Examiner , but the editor, Leigh Hunt, thought the public ""had not become sufficiently discerning to do justice to the sincerity and kind-heartedness of the spirit that walked in this flaming robe of verse.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 338

[Dodgson (C.L.)], ""Lewis Carroll"". - The Hunting of the Snark, first edition , wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by Henry Holiday, title browned, original pictorial beige cloth, soiled, spine browned and chipped, 1876 § Lindsay (Vachel) The Daniel Jazz and Other Poems, first edition , 1920 § Rilke (Rainer Maria) Letters to Venvenuta, first English edition , Hogarth Press , 1953 § Thomas (Dylan) Collected Poems 1934-1952, first edition , portrait, light spotting, 1952 § Blyth (R.H.) Haiku, 4 vol., plates, [Tokyo], 1952, all original cloth, the last two with dust-jackets, all rubbed, the second soiled and cockled ; and 3 others, 8vo & 4to (11)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 340

Hopkins (Gerard Manley) - Poems..., edited by Robert Bridges, first edition , 2 photogravure portraits, double-page facsimile, very light foxing at beginning and end, contemporary ink inscription and stamp ""Christian Community"" at head of front free endpaper, endpapers a little damp-stained, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, rubbed, spines browned and worn at head and foot, paper label chipped, corners slightly worn, 1918 § Beeching (H.C., editor ) Lyra Sacra, original buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, 1895, [Dunne A38 & A15], 8vo (2) The first is one of only 750 copies . Robert Bridges on whom the poet had relied to keep, treasure, and conceivably publish the poems after Hopkins`s death, believed that they must be printed, and was soon planning an edition with a short memoir. Delay was caused by his respect for the private nature of the letters, by his feeling that Hopkins`s melancholia should not be publicly exposed, and by fear that the public would not understand the peculiarities of the verse. He gradually introduced small groups of the poems into anthologies, but it was not until 1916 that he received the public encouragement for which he was waiting. The sensitive, handsome, and almost complete small edition, edited and largely designed by Bridges, was published at the end of 1918. DNB The second work contains the first appearance of Hopkins`s poems in book form (pp.313-136), also those of Digby Mackworth Dolben (pp. 323-26).

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 354

Graves (Robert) - I, Claudius, spotting to endpapers, dust-jacket with large portion of loss to head of upper panel and foot of spine, closed tear and creasing to head of spine, rubbed at extremities, 1934 § Greene (Graham) Our Man in Havana, jacket spine slightly faded, light surface soiling to lower panel, 1958; A Burnt-Out Case, spotting to fore-edge, jacket spine slightly browned, a little rubbed, 1961; The Comedians, jacket price-clipped, very light rubbing to head and foot, 1966, first editions, first two original cloth, others original boards, dust-jackets ; and 6 others by Graves and Greene, 8vo (10)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 366

Powell (Anthony) - A Buyer`s Market, first edition , original cloth, minor sunning to spines ends, otherwise a fine, sharp copy, dust-jacket, tears and splits to corners and edges with slight loss, larger tear descending into upper panel and lower panel near spine with loss, light marking, 8vo, 1952. Second in the A Dance to the Music of Time series. Scarce.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 370

Wells (H.G.) - The Island of Doctor Moreau, lacking front free endpaper, first issue cloth with pubisher`s monogram blind-stamped to lower cover, spine browned, spine ends and corners a little bumped, light soiling, 1896; The Wonderful Visit, lacking front free endpaper, browning to prelims, second issue cloth with angel in gilt to upper cover, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1895; The Wheels of Change, bookplate, spine slightly faded, 1896, first editions, original cloth, plates and illustrations ; and 3 others, Wells, 8vo (6)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 38

Wheeler (Gervase) - Rural Homes; or Sketches of Houses suited to American Country Life, first edition , plates and illustrations, light foxing, original cloth, stained, spine faded and worn at ends, New York, 1851 § Loth (C.) & J.T.Sadler, Jr. The Only Proper Style: Gothic Architecture in America, Boston, 1975 § Dubrow (E. & R.) American Furniture of the 19th Century 1840-1880, second, revised and expanded edition, Atglen, Pa., 2000 § True (M.) & Jorge Sivetti. The Getty Villa, Los Angeles, 2005 § Wilkinson (H.) More is More: Tony Duquette, New York, 2009, illustrations, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets ; and c.20 others on American architecture and interior design, 8vo & 4to (c.25)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 390

Life in London?, 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Isaac Life in London , 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Isaac, Robert & George Cruikshank, wood-engraved vignettes, lacks half-title and advertisements, some offsetting, contents shaken, slightly browned, bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine chipped, 1825 § [Fitton (Elizabeth & Sarah)] Conversations on Botany, third edition, 22 hand-coloured engraved plates, occasional light offsetting and spots, contemporary half calf, gilt, rubbed, 1820; and c. 45 others, various, including 21 vol. only of 22, Conrad, Works, Medallion Edition, 1925, 8vo & 4to (c. 45).

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 391

Parables from Nature, inscribed by the author ( Mrs . Alfred) Parables from Nature, inscribed by the author, engraved plates and illustrations by Holman Hunt, Harrison Weir, John Tenniel and many others, some marginal water-staining and light foxing, publisher`s presentation binding of full red morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., joints cracked but firm, overall an attractive copy, 1865; and another, vol. 1 of Familiar Garden Flowers, 8vo (7)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 392

Grandville (J.J.) - Un Autre Monde, first edition , half-title and title printed in red, 36 wood-engraved plates mostly with contemporary hand-colouring, numerous illustrations, a little light foxing to some ff., later half morocco, g.e., [Vicaire III, p.132; Carteret III, p.285; Sander 214; Ray 196: ""In this remarkable book, of the boldest possible originality, Grandville dared to reveal his dream world to the public""], Paris , 1844; and the first part of Grandville`s Les Fleurs Animées, 8vo (2)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 399

engraver ) The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry engraver ) The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, engraved title and 84 engraved plates, 1 plate trimmed and mounted, title slightly soiled, some foxing and light offsetting, ex-library copy with stamp to verso of title, contemporary diced russia, rebacked preserving original backstrip, shelf markings to spine, g.e., lower crease cracked, worn, oblong 4to, W.Watts , 1779 [-1886].

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 408

printer ).- Book of Common Prayer ?, one of 500 copies printer ).- Book of Common Prayer (The)? , one of 500 copies, printed in red and black, with compliments slip of John Pierpont Morgan loosely inserted and note of receipt and another concerning the binding, light spotting and soiling to endpapers but text clean, original oxblood pigskin, ruled and stamped in blind, t.e.g., others uncut, rather rubbed, spine faded, split to upper joint, folio, Boston, printed by D.B.Updike of the Merrymount Press, 1928 [1930]. Updike`s magnum opus and one of the most beautifully-designed American books of the twentieth century. It was printed for the Joint Commission on the Revision and Enrichment of the Book of Common Prayer and financed by the banker J.P.Morgan. Updike was well-suited to printing the work being a staunch Episcopalian and familiar with the text; it took two years to produce.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 429

London.- Bell (Walter George) - The Great Fire of London, signed by the author on front free endpaper , 1920 § Wyllie (W.L. & M.A.) London to the Nore , illustrated by the authors , 1905 § Adcock ( St. John, editor ) Wonderful London , 3 vol., colour frontispieces, illustrations, n.d. § Nevill (Ralph) & Charles Edward Jerningham. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man, 1908, some light browning, o riginal cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed ; and a quantity of others, London, its History and Environs, v.s. (8 boxes)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 447

[Godinho (Nicolao)] - Vida del Bienaventurado Padre Gonzalo de Sylveira, Sacerdote de la Compaña de Jesus, Martirizado en Monomotapa, Ciudad en la Cafraria, translated by Bernardo de Cienfuegos, upper corner of title torn, light staining, ownership inscription of a Jesuit house and the Biblioteca Episcopal de Cordoba on title, note on fly-leaf, 8vo, Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1614. Early Jesuit missionary in Africa, martyred by strangulation in present-day Zimbabwe in March 1561.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 453

China.- - Historic map of China, The Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), colour woodblock, on laid paper, 335 x 390 mm., central vertical fold, two small repairs to wormhole damage in margins, light surface dirt, 19th century.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 469

Heyne (Benjamin) - Tracts, Historical and Statistical, on India...also, an account of Sumatra, first edition , 2 folding engraved geological maps with partial hand-colouring, 5 engraved plates, 1 hand-coloured, lacking advertisement leaf at end, some light spotting and water-staining, book-label of Frances M.Beach of Langley House, contemporary half calf, rebacked in sheep, rubbed, 4to, 1814. Concerning a variety of subjects including geology, meteorology, numismatics, mines and the cotton industry.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 47

Dada & Surrealism.- Mesens (E.L.T.) - Poémes 1923-1958, limited edition, illustrations by René Magritte, original wrappers, lightly soiled, Paris, 1959 § Buffet (Gabrielle) Francis Picabia, illustrations by Picabia (some in colour), original soft covers, a little stained and browned , 1968 § Duchamp (Marcel) Marchand du Sel, folding reproduction of the Large Glass, printed on clear plastic tipped in, illustrations, some light spotting, original wrappers printed in red and black, rubbed, unopened, 1958, 8vo (3)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 470

Maria (Graham) - Journal of a Residence in India, first edition , hand-coloured frontispiece and 15 plates (2 folding), plates a little oxidized, some light offsetting and foxing, bookplate and label to upper pastedown, contemporary quarter calf, spine blind-stamped and gilt, rebacked preserving original backstrip, later endpapers inserted, extremities rubbed, 4to, Edinburgh, 1812.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 479

Brockedon (William) - Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps, 8 parts only (of 12) in one, with a letterpress title for vol.I dated 1828, 64 engraved plates, 8 maps with routes picked out by hand, some light scattered foxing, occasional minor oxidising or offsetting to plates, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, some rubbing, [Neate B170], 4to, [1827-28].

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 80

Gerard (John) - The Herball or General Historie of Plantes, edited by Thomas Johnson, third edition, lacking initial and final blanks, with engraved title and numerous woodcut illustrations, engraved title a little stained and frayed at lower edge (trimmed to plate-mark and laid down), browned, light water-staining to lower edge (mostly marginal and at beginning and end), 3T2 torn, a few other minor marginal tears and repairs, ex-library copy with small old stamp to title and dedication, otherwise text unstamped, library morocco-backed buckram, rubbed, [Henrey 156; Hunt 230; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11752], folio, by Adam Filip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 115

Plato.- - Omnia D. Platonis Opera Tralatione Marsilij Ficini... woodcut device on title and final ff. verso, woodcut initials, occasional spotting and some light marginal soiling, contemporary and later ink annotations throughout, blindstamp to final ff. front free endpaper, 18th Century calf, rebacked, oval gilt cartouche to covers, extremities worn, folio, Venice, Apud H. Scotum, 1571.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 131

Silius Italicus (Tiberius Catius) - Caji Silii Italici Punicorum libri septemdecim..., engraved frontispiece, 8 engraved plates and 25 engraved text illustrations, decorative tail-pieces, title printed in red and black, occasional offsetting, spotting and some marginal soiling, remains of bookplate to front pastedown, later calf, rebacked, worn, Trajecti ad Rhenum, Guilielmum Vandewater , 1717 § Juvenal.- D. Iunii iuvenalis aquinatis Satyrae, cum scholiis veterum, & commentariis integris, 2 vol. in 1, engraved frontispiece, light water-staining to margins of several gatherings, ink inscription and bookplate to front free endpaper and pastedown respectively, contemporary vellum, joints cracked, soiled, Lugduni Batavorum, apud Petrum vander Aa, 1695, titles printed in red and black ; and another, similar, 4to (3)

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 141

Cicero (Marcus Tullius) - Opera, Cum Delectu Commentariorum, edited by J.Oliveti, 9 vol., vol. 1 title in red and black, woodcut initials, some light soiling to endpapers but generally a clean and bright set, later calf, gilt, spines gilt in compartments, joints a little cracked at ends, extremities rubbed, 4to, Geneva, Cramer, 1758.

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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury (Bloomsbury)
Lot 143

Kol`tsov (Aleksey Vasilievich) - Stikhotvoreniya [Verses], first edition , issue with frontispiece portrait on india paper mounted, lithographed facsimile at end, light stain affecting half-title, title and first approx. 20 pp., ex-libris stamp on title, blank recto of frontispiece and verso of facsmile, contemporary half morocco, rubbed at edges, 8vo, [St Petersburg] , 1846.

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